structured interview and semi-structured interviews

Question 1

what is a structured interview?what methodists normally use this?

Answer 1

where the reasercher has a pre-dertermined list of questions they will ask the participants, mostly used by positivist

Question 2

what are the 4 types of interviews?

Answer 2

structured interview, semi-structured interview, unstructured interview and group interview

Question 3

What is a semi-structured interview?what methodist usually use this?

Answer 3

there is a pre-set list of questions but the researcher also has a scope to ask follow up questions, mostly used by positivists

Question 4

What is an unstructured interview?what methodist usually use this?

Answer 4

where the reasearcher has no set questions but prepares a number of ideas they would like to discuss with the participants, mostly used by interpretivists

Question 5

What is a focus group interview?

Answer 5

where a number of participants will be interviewed at the same time

Question 6

how are structured interviews similar to questionnaries and how do they differ?

Answer 6

because they already have a fixed set of questions, however interviews are face- to face while questionanaires are not

Question 7

what type of data does structured interviews commonly produce?

Answer 7

quantitative data

Question 8

name 4 strengths of structured interviews?

Answer 8

time and money, response rate and reliability

Question 9

what type of factors is time and money and how does structured interviews provide this?

Answer 9

practical factor, its cheap in comparison to unstructured interviews, and training interviwers can be straightforward and inexpansive as they follow instructions

Question 10

give an example of where structured interviews were used that helped with time and money?

Answer 10

willmott and young and there study on the rise of symmetrical family, and due to using this type of interview it was less time consuming and expensive

Question 11

what time of factor is response time and how did structured interviews provide this?

Answer 11

practical and theoretical, participants are more likely to participate as it takes less time which improves representativeness

Question 12

name an exaple of were a structured interview provided a high response rate?

Answer 12

the crime servey for england and wales(CSEW)- as 75% of people argreed to take part

Question 13

what factor is reliablity and how does structured interviews provide this?

Answer 13

theoretical, ensures that each interview is performed in the same way and with the same questions aswell as same interview formula

Question 14

name an example of where structured interview provided reliablity?

Answer 14

townsend and there research of poverty in the uk

Question 15

practical strengths of structured interviews?

Answer 15

time effective as its relatively straightforward and easy to analyse and collect data

Question 16

ethical strenghths of interviews?

Answer 16

easy to obtain informed consent as the research if face to face

Question 17

theoritacal strengths of structured interviews?

Answer 17

set questions so interviewer’s perspective is less likely to influence in the results

Question 18

what are the 3 limitations of structured interviews?and what factors are these?

Answer 18

inflexible(practical), low validity(theoretical) and atypical respondants(theoretical)

Question 19

how does structured interviews not provide flexibility?

Answer 19

because the questions are planned the researcher decides what is important which does not correlate with the participants priorties or opinons

Question 20

how does a structured interview have low validity?

Answer 20

because an interview is a social interaction which means there is a chance that the interaction between the interviewee and interviwer than inflence the results like for example, enthnicity or gender, know as the hawthrone effect

Question 21

how does structured interviews have atypical respondants?

Answer 21

those who respond to interviews can be atypical, for example those who have the time and willingness to be in an interview are likely to be unemployed or lonely

Question 22

an exapple of where structured interview provided atypical respondants?

Answer 22

townsend, on a poverty study had high response rate however from the wrong people as they got low responses from the pooerest group in society as most may have to work more

Question 23

practical limitations to structured interviews?

Answer 23

the damand of characteristics of the interviwer and their facial expressions which can ifluence the study

Question 24

ethical limitations of structured interview?

Answer 24

some people may feel uncomfortable disclosing sentative and private issue to a stranger which could cause mental distress

Question 25

theoretical limitations of structured interviews?

Answer 25

due to the creation of the questions whoever creates the questions is influencing it

Question 26

Strengths of semi-structured interviews?(open and closed question)

Answer 26

collect quantitative and qualitative data and open question allows the interviwer some flexibility

Question 27

limitations of semi-structured interviews?

Answer 27

some of the interviewees need more probing than others which can be time consuming and the data may not be compariable